Thirty-fourth Annual Convention. '^'^ 



men handle very little Illinois butter. Most of it is handled by 

 the creamery companies direct, who either ship it or have their 

 own outlets. Very little of that butter comes to South Water 

 street unless it is not fit to go into the regular channels, and 

 then it is thrown on the market ; but the commission men do not 

 feel that they owe any debt to Illinois buttermakers or dairymen 

 at all, because they do not get any benefit our of their business. 

 Minnesota, Iowa or Wisconsin have no large markets for butter ; 

 their butter comes into those big distributing centers and is 

 handled there, and the merchants in those centers get the benefit 

 of commissions from handling the butter, and of course feel 

 liberal towards the associations in those states, but they will not 

 contribute to Illinois. We never had any success in getting 

 contributions from the commission men for our Dairymen's 

 Association. 



The matter of reorganization should be left to the officers 

 to act on, and of course that action will depend on the sort of 

 agreement that can be made. Unless the Dairy Association want 

 to do what the buttermakers think is proper, perhaps they would 

 not want to go in, but I do not think there will be any question 

 about that. 



The Chairman: — The principal thing we ought to ask for 

 is to change the title of the Association to the Illinois Dairy- 

 men's and Buttermakers' Association, give us one day on the 

 program, or in arranging the program to include in one day the 

 subjects most interesting to the buttermakers, and to have a 

 scoring contest with a liberal premium fund. I do not know of 

 anything else we can ask from them except to give us recognition 

 in the Board of Directors and officers. 



Mr. Caven: — The principal thing is recognition in the 

 name of the Association. 



The Chairman : — You will notice in this annual report that 

 the officers were authorized to get out incorporation papers. 

 When the officers met to do that, they wrote around to different 

 states and obtained by-laws and articles of incorporations from 

 different associations ; then this matter came up and the officers 

 decided there would be no benefit in incorporating if we were 

 gomg to affiliate with the other state associations, so nothing 

 further was done. 



